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My Grandmother grew up during World War II and migrated to America when she was 11. She had a very unique childhood and believes that the people of my generation should try to get good, basic education to lay a...

Lenore Fox Monti talks with her aunt, Sr. Carol Fox about her childhood growing up in Chicago and her life as an educator.

I interviewed my 92 year old grandpa who fought in World War II. Unfortunately, the recording got cut off unexpectedly half way through.

After thanksgiving dinner I interviewed my grandpa

Russell Meredith (88) speaks with Leo Gaudin (67), Susan O'Neill (63), and Jonathan Basile (26) about his military assignments during World War II, his travels, and dealing with racial prejudice in the South and North.

Talking about her childhood and growing up.

mostly talked about childhood and me and my brothers’ memories

Growing up during the war

How life is for a firefighter and what you need to become a firefighter and for better answers i have asked my brother who is a firefighter and even some advice for people looking into becoming one

My grandma grew up in a full house but it was good because she was able to be cared for by her aunt when her parents had places to be. Her childhood was sometimes chaotic since she grew up in...

Great Depression/Recession Interview

Kaelin Barke: 2020-11-29 00:17:18 I interview my grandmother about how her younger life was including her childhood, parents, grandparents, school, and her husband.

I ask my grandma about her life during WW2

About family ancestry, growing up during the depression, and life learned lessons.

Hazel M. Pace talks with her son James T. Pace about being a nurse in Menlo Park, CA for the Army and tells about meeting her husband Bob at Dibble General Hospital, where she was working. Hazel and James tell...

Growing up in during WW2 was a lot harder than many people think.

“I do attempt to be a good person 24-7.” In this interview, recorded on January 2nd, 2019, Piers Pozil (14) interviewed Johnny Simpson (75) in Aspen, Colorado, and asked him how his past experiences shaped him to make him who...

Growing up in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma.

Her life as a child had many opportunities to see the world through different cultures. Her adult life was carved out of need to climb out of debt. She never finished college but worked my way up the corporate ladder...

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Chuck Niswonger (who I am named after) recalls his life growing up in the 30's and inlisting in the Navy for World War 2. He met my great grandmother when he was 26 and she was 19. They are 7...

In this interview we explore my families history with my mother who grew up in Santa Ana in the seventies. She shares details into our family’s past some of the jobs that they did and how she a mexican woman...

In this interview on December 1, 2018 in Plano Texas Kylie Lodes interviews her grandma Patricia Fuller about her life growing up. She talks about where she was born and what her school life was like as a child and...

An interview with someone about their time during the Great Recession.

Lucille Wilhoit passed away on September 3, 2016. I remembered I'd recorded two interviews with her for the National Day of Listening in November of 2010. She talks in this interview about the importance of music to her, and how...